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Baseball Bugs!
This is the episode where Bugs turns to the camera and says, "Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful, paralyzing, poifect, pachydoimous, percussion pitch."
Full cartoon, streaming on dailymotion.com
Take note of Carl W. Stalling's screamer (*) right after the opening theme is finished (it starts just after the 0:15 mark, and lasts only 12 seconds). This man wrote one complete score every week for twenty-two years! That is Thomas Kinkade-like in its consistency and longevity. Stalling should be better-known than he currently is.
The great thing about frame-by-frame animation (well, other than providing awesome quality), is that you can pick up some funny things, such as the fans throwing bottles of alcohol into the air along with their hats:
"There goes a screaming liner into left field!"
I *love* that they used a gentleman of color as the announcer - Jackie Robinson would not debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers until the following year (1947). Was this a subtle middle finger to racism and discrimination?
This is so funny - as the Gas-House Gorillas are running up the score (the "score board" in the 4th inning shows the score is 96-0, and the opposing pitcher is 93 1/2 years old), with one batter after another hitting homer-after-homer, they form a conga line to march around the bases:
Food related: Ads for "Manza Champagne" and "Lausbub's Bread." The billboard that says "Ross Co. Finer Footwear For The Brats" is named for animator Virgil Ross (I got that tidbit from Wikipedia):
This is just an unbelievable coincidence: The billboard in left field says "Filboid Studge," and "Philboyd Studge" (do a search on it inside that link) was the narrator's nickname in "Breakfast of Champions" which I only recently finished. In a lottery-like coincidence, I've apparently randomly stumbled across the only two modern references to the name in pop-culture history. Its origin is very obscure - it was in a story by writer Hector Hugh Munro aka "Saki." Maybe coincidences like this happen all the time, and nobody ever notices because they aren't paying attention? Or maybe this is just plain weird.
When Bugs tags the runner in the gut at home plate, four little angels - images of the runner himself - appear over his head, doing a little "baseball dance." It's ingenious details like these that make Bugs Bunny cartoons something more than just special:
Paying close attention during observation can reap great benefits, and I found a blatant mistake in the cartoon that I don't believe has ever been found before: As we're preparing for the finale at the 5:19 mark, the announcer announces the score: "Bugs Bunny 96, the Gas-House Gorillas 95":
But if you go back to 1:36 in the cartoon, the Gorillas scored a 96th run which briefly flashed up on the scoreboard:
My contributions to mankind are now complete.
ETA: Fuck a dog. Why doesn't the person running moviemistakes.com get a damned life?
Ha! Ha! Ha! During the climax, the Statue of Liberty chimes in, and it's none other than Bea Benaderet, using her "Little Red Riding Rabbit" voice.
Did I really just spend an hour and a half analyzing a Bugs Bunny cartoon?
(*) More importantly, keep your cod-damp (**) sole away from the gutter.
(**) First recorded usage in English-language history. This is historically important. It is. Really.

Other than Bugs Bunny, the most important cartoon ever? Nope! That would be Tom and Jerry. Pilot Episode: "The Flagstones" May 1, 1960:
[Note: Only 90 seconds long, and not many people have seen this - I know I hadn't.]
Season 1
Episode numbers are listed with Original Air Dates: 1. "The Flintstone Flyer" - Sep 30, 1960:
[Note: The Barney-Copter! No! The Flintstone Flyer! I had no idea this was Season 1, Episode 1 when I was a child.]
2. "Hot Lips Hannigan" - Oct 7, 1960:
[Note: Wow - between this and the pilot, Wilma has some bitch to her - look at those quotes of hers in the link!]
3. "The Swimming Pool" - Oct 14, 1960:
[Note: From what I remember, the "looks" of Fred and Barney are radically different than they are in later seasons.]